About the Authors

Roberta De Angelis

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta De Angelis, Sonia Melino

Affiliations University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Industrial Engineering, Rome, Italy, INSTM Consortium, Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Sonia Melino

Contributed equally to this work with: Roberta De Angelis, Sonia Melino

Affiliation University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy

Paolo Prosposito

Affiliations University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Industrial Engineering, Rome, Italy, INSTM Consortium, Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Mauro Casalboni

Affiliations University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Industrial Engineering, Rome, Italy, INSTM Consortium, Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Francesca Romana Lamastra

Affiliation INSTM Consortium, Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Francesca Nanni

Affiliations INSTM Consortium, Research Unit Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Enterprise Engineering, Rome, Italy

Laura Bruno

laura.bruno@uniroma2.it

Affiliation University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Biology of Algae, Rome, Italy

Roberta Congestri

Affiliation University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Biology of Algae, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SM RC PP FRL. Data curation: RDA SM PP MC FRL FN LB RC. Formal analysis: RDA SM RC LB PP. Funding acquisition: RC LB PP. Investigation: SM RC RDA PP FRL. Methodology: SM RC PP FRL. Project administration: SM RC PP. Resources: SM LB PP RC. Supervision: SM RC PP FRL. Validation: RDA SM PP MC FRL FN LB RC. Visualization: SM LB RC. Writing – original draft: RDA SM PP RC. Writing – review & editing: SM LB RC.